Vedran Dzihic

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Dr. Vedran Dzihic is a senior researcher at the oiip and lecturer at the University of Vienna. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Washington D.C. His field of research are related to democracy and transition processes, European integration, civil society and protest movements, foreign policy, conflict research, and nationalism. His regional focus lies on Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the USA. He has published numerous books, articles and analyses on these questions and is regulary contributing to national and international media.

Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book (Kosovo-Bilanz – together with Helmut Kramer), 2006

Director of Austrian Office of Center for European Integration Strategies (CEIS) (Coordination of Policy Work of the Center, Publication of Policy Briefs, Advisory Tasks in the Western Balkans and within the EU), 2006-2010

Lecturer at the Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, 2006-present

Research Analyst of Association Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2005-2006

Project Leader and Senior Researcher, Project Design and management, Coordination of Public activities in Austria, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia; Title of the Project: Imaginations of Europe. Comparing Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, NODE, (New Orientations for Democracy in Europe), Vienna (founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Culture), 2005-2006

Lecturer on Western Balkans and European Integration at the postgraduate MA-studies “Balkan-Studies” and at the Institute for Political Sciences, University of Vienna, since 2004

Researcher within the Project of the OIIP conducted within the NODEframework (Perspectives of the EU-Enlargement for the Western Balkans), 2003-2005

Leading Researcher within the project “Reporting of Western Print Media about the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina)”, founded by the Austrian National Bank, 2003-2005

Assistant at the Institute for Political Sciences, Vienna, 2002-2004

Independent Researcher, Office for Science of the City of Vienna, Holder of “Forschungsstipendium der Stadt Wien”, 2001-2003

Tutor and teaching assistant at the Institute for Political Sciences, Vienna, 1999-2002

Consultant for the United Nations, Office in Vienna, lectures on various UNtopics, 1999-2008

Memberships

OGPW (Austrian Society for Political Sciences)

Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

East European Initiative at Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Edited and Co-Authored Books

The Europeanization of Minority Issues in the Western Balkans, Guest Editors: Florian Bieber und Vedran Dzihic, Special Issue of the Journal for Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), Vol 11, 3/2012.

Unfinished Business. The Western Balkans and the International Community, Brookings Institutions Press, D.C. CTR-Series, Washington D.C. (editor together with Dan Hamilton), 2012.

Looming Shadows. Migration and Integration at a Time of Upheaval. European and American Perspectives, Brookings Institutions Press, D.C. CTR-Series, Washington D.C. (editor together with Thomas Schmidinger), 2012.

Auswahl und Einleitung von Christophe Solioz und Vedran Dzihic, Klagenfurt/Celovec, 2009. Austrian Presidency of the EU: Regional Approaches to the Balkans, Published by Center for the Study of Global Governance and the Center for European Integration Strategies, Edited by Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Foreword by Christophe Solioz and Vedran Dzihic, Vienna, 2006.

Europeanization and new constitutional solutions - a way out of the vicious crisis cycle of crises in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in: CPI, Zagreb: Bosnia and Herzegovina: How to come to a sustainable solution?, March 15, 2010.

Nationalism and Stateness in Post-Dayton-Bosnia with Particular Consideration of the 'Europeanization' of BiH, in: Dino Abazovic et.al. (ed.): Politics and Society 10 Years After Dayton: Young Scholars Conference on the State of Social Science Research on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 2007.

Lessons from “Post-Yugoslav” Democratization: Functional Problems of Stateness and the Limits of Democracy, East European Politics and Society, published online on May, 2012. print issue in June 2012, (together with Dieter Segert), 2011.

Vedran Dzihic and Angela Wieser, "The Crisis of Expectations - Europeanisation as'acquis démocratique' and its limits. The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia," L’Europeen formation, No 349-350, autumn-winter, pp. 81-98., 2008.

Prospects for the Europeanisation of State-Building Efforts in Kosovo and Bosnia, in: Foreign Policy in Dialogue. A Quarterly Newsletter on German and European Foreign Policy, Volume 8, Issue 23, November, pp. 18-24, 2007.